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IMBEDDD^G OF OEGANIC EEMAINS 



[Ch. XLVI. 



the stream lie in much warmer latitudes than its mouths. 

 In the country, therefore, where the sources are situated, the 



the lower part of its course are ice-bound. Hence the 

 current of w^ater, rushing down northward, reaches a point 

 where the thaw has not begun, and finding the channel of 

 the river blocked up with ice, it overflows the banks, sweeping 

 through forests of pines, and carrying away thousands of up- 

 rooted trees. 



■Although 



ift-timber on coasts of Iceland 



timber from 



immense 



of thick trunks of pines, firs, and other trees are throM^n 

 upon the northern coast of the island, especially upon North 

 Cape and Cape Langaness, and are then carried by the waves 

 along these two promontories to other parts of the coast, 

 so as to aftbrd sufficiency of wood for fuel and for construct- 



ing boats. 



Timber 



Krantz assures us that the masses 



floating wood thrown by the waves upon the island of John 



May 



similar manner 



accumulates 



coast of Siberia that are exposed to the east, consisting of 

 larch, pine, Siberian cedar, fir, and other kinds of trees, 

 said to come from distant southern latitudes. Some of 

 the trunks have been deprived of their bark by friction, but 

 retain their roots and branches and are in such a state of pre- 



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almost 



North 



too cold for the growth of such timber, but the trunks are 

 usually barked- 



The leaves and lighter portions of plants are seldom car- 



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led out to sea, in any part of the globe, except during tropical 



anion 



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* Krantz, Hist, of Greenland, torn, i. f Olafsen, Voyage to Iceland, torn. i. 

 pp. 53-54. 



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